From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T23:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby LDAP --- Hooray!!

For this one task all I am doing is pulling the Exchange Server global
address book through LDAP and uploading the derived list to an upstream
provider that helps us filter out spam e-mail messages. It's just a
quick pull and the library you have made things a snap. It's all done
now.

There was another project I was considering moving to LDAP. Right now I
have a mobile CRM app that uses Exchange CDO for storing the contact
details. Rather than use this (clunky) storage method I am thinking
about moving the contact store over to an lighter weight LDAP tree. I
have OpenLDAP Server on my development box and did some modeling of how
things would work. Seems like a good possibility down the road
sometime. Right now things work fine in regards to what's already been
done. It's just a fine tuning matter to improve things whenever I find
the time.

Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> Thanks. Let us know here if you hit any problems with the library or
> if you have any feature requests. Sounds like you may be doing more
> with Net::LDAP than just bind-authenticating users, so I'll be curious
> to follow your progress.
>
> On 7/28/06, gregarican <greg.kujawa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > After unsuccessfully trying to compile a Ruby LDAP implementation a
> > year or so ago I found another project on Rubyforge
> > (http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ldap/) that easily accomplished the
> > task in my Windows One-Click Installer Ruby environment. It was as easy
> > as typing in ruby setup.rb! I am so thankful for the good work
> > performed by the project maintainer(s) and wanted to express this. Now
> > I can work on automating some spam filtering with my upstream mail
> > scanning host. And do so using Ruby rather than an alternative
> > language. Once again, thanks for the job well done!
> >
> >
> >